Mildly interesting

Horace

Was he a sportscaster that happened to be gay, or did he report on gay sports?

Not sure how much soccer reporting he did.

jon-nyc

Based purely on Bayesian priors, I suspect it’s more likely he died of one of the many rare autoimmune diseases out there

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

"Street view"

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Mik

Doggerland, 9,000 years ago, connected Britain to continental Europe through a mix of marshes, swamps, wooded valleys, and hills. It was likely inhabited by humans during the Mesolithic period and served as a hunting ground.

However, ice melted, sea levels rose, and Doggerland became submerged, cutting off the British peninsula from Europe around 7,000 BC. Today, Doggerland is a productive fishing bank, with fishermen dredging up hand-made bone artifacts, textile fragments, paddles, canoes, fish traps, a 13,000-year-old human remains, and a woolly mammoth skull

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George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

However, ice melted, sea levels rose, and Doggerland became submerged, cutting off the British peninsula from Europe around 7,000 BC.

Thank God for global warming and rising oceans!

kluurs

1910 Gyro Monorail -

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Mik

What could go wrong?

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Fascinating.

The gyroscopic stabilizer is the basis for the Segway, isn't it?

Also, the tilting during curves is accomplished in modern trains by what's called "superelevating" the rail, with the outside rail being just a bit higher than the inside rail.

The Acela's route is not superelevated along most (if any) of its route. Traveling at 135 mph around curves would be uncomfortable for passengers. The builder of the train solved that problem by allowing the body of the car to tilt "into" the curve while the trucks and wheels remained level.

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Mik

Roman Army Knife (201-300 AD); has a spoon, knife, fork, spike, spatula and pick allowing the user to even clean between their teeth after eating. It was part of the equipment of Roman legions.

This folding eating gadget has a three-pronged fork, a spoon,a spatula,a pick, a spike and an iron knife that has eroded away.

There is a hinge to allow each item to be folded out when it was needed, or folded away for ease of transporting it.

The spike might of helped in extracting the meat from snails, and the spatula in scraping sauce out of narrow-necked bottles. Some have even suggested the pick with the tiny spoon on the end could have been used to remove earwax.

Material : Silver and Iron

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kluurs

Copper

@kluurs said in Mildly interesting:

If he had instead invented the EV, he could have saved us all a lot of trouble .

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

If he had instead invented the EV

I got yer Diesel-Electric vehicle right here:

jon-nyc

Leet level counting

Mik

How often does one need to count that high using fingers? I can do similarly in my head for all practical purposes.

jon-nyc

Shepherds of old would count by touching their thumb to the segments of the four fingers, starting with the top of the index finger and moving down, then to the middle finger, etc.

That counted 12, and they’d keep track of how many sets of 12 they had counted with the other hand the same way.

That’s how base 12 entered our world (time of day, dozen, gross).